Bird in Hand presents… with JHU Medicine, Science, and the Humanities: Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science, featuring Julia Cummiskey

The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book.

For the first event in February, we are delighted to welcome Julia Cummiskey to share her book Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global. This book, which presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936, challenges assumptions about global health as an enterprise dominated by researchers based in the Global North and recenters the history of biomedicine in Africa.

This event is open to the public, and we encourage you to come even if it’s your first time joining for this event series!

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Julia Cummiskey earned her MPH from Columbia University in 2007 and her PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Dr. Cummiskey’s research focuses on the history of international public health and medical research in Africa. She is interested in the interplay between social, political, and scientific forces in the formulation and implementation of public health policy in Africa. She is currently working on a book about the history of virus research in Uganda from the 1930s to the present, exploring the role of African researchers, subjects, and institutions in the production of global biomedical knowledge.

Dr. Cummiskey will be working as the 2019-2020 postdoctoral fellow for the Online Program in the History of Medicine and teaching in the School of Public Health while working on her research and preparing publications.